Metallic railway-rail tie



(No Model.)-

J. CASELEY. METALLIC RAILWAY RAIL TIE.

Patented Dec; 3, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN CASELEY, OF KNIGHTSTOlVN, INDIANA.

M ETALLIC RAlLWAY-RAI L TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,396, dated December 3, 1889.

Application filed August 16, 1889- Serial No. 320,998. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN OAsELEY, of

Knightstown, in thecounty of Henry and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Metallic Railway-Rail Ties, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in metallic railway-ties, and has for its object to provide a tie of simple and durable construction, capable of being expeditiously and conveniently placed in position to receive a rail or removed from the rail, as occasion may demand.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved tie. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section through the same, and Fig. 3 is a bottom plan vlew.

The tie is made in three sections-11amely, two rail-supporting plates 10 and a combined connecting and tie-bar 11. The supportingplates are constructed of sheet metal, preferably about one-half an inch thick, the ends of which plates are preferably curved downward, as illustrated at 12 in Fig. 2. I11 the central portion of each plate a tongue 13 is struck up, exposing an opening 14, extending longitudinally of said plates, as shown in Fig. The tongues 13 of the supporting-plates are shaped to conform to the contour of the upper face of the rail-flange and a portion of the Web of the rail, as illustrated at 15 in Fig. 2. In the inner end wall of the openings 14 of each supporting-plate a recess 16 is produced, and the metal removed to form said recess is bent perpendicularly downward beneath the supporting-plates to form a lip 17.

The rails 18 are slid transversely across the supporting -plates beneath the tongues 13, which tongues, as aforesaid, neatly fit the contour of the flange and a portion of the web. Thus the rails cover the openings 14 in the supporting-plates, as the said openings are preferably made of a length equivalent to the Width of the rail-flange.

. The rails having been placed in position upon the supporting plates, the combined connecting and tie bar 11 is employed to unite the opposed plate-sections of the ties, as illustrated. This connecting and tie bar is preferably made rectangular in cross-section and provided near each end with an integral stud or post 18, extending at a right angle downward from the under side, and integral with each end of the connecting-bar at the top a nose 19 is formed, the under face of which nose is concave, as illustrated in Fig. 2, whereby it fits snugly over the flange-surface of the rail opposite to that in contact with the tongue 15, when the studs or posts 18 are passed downward through the recesses 16 in the supporting-plates.

The combined tie and connecting bar is held firmly clamped to the rail by passing a key 20 horizontally through each of the posts or studs 18 in contact with the under face of the supporting-plates, as best shown in Fig. 3.

By this construction I obtain a durable tie of light weight, and one which may be readily placed in position to receive a rail, and quickly and conveniently detached from the rail when occasion may demand.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A metallic railroad-tie comprising two base-plates 10, having downwardly-curved ends 12, struck up tongues 15 to rest against the outer sides of the rails, the inner end walls of the recesses produced by the formation of said tongues being recessed at 16, and a bar 11 resting on top of the adjacent ends of the plates 10 and formed at its ends with apertured studs or posts 18, extending down through said recesses 16, and overhanging noses 19 to rest on the rail-flanges, and the pins 20, passed through said apertures and along the under faces of the plates 10, substantially as set forth.

2. In a metallic tie for railway-rails, the combination, with plate sections provided with downwardly-curved ends, each section having a tongue struck up from the center, curved to conform to the contour of the flange and web of a rail, producing thereby a central opening, and one end of said opening the rail, and a key passed through each of [0 having a' recess formed therein, producing; a the posts or studs of the connecting-bar bedownwardly-extending lip, of a combined tie neat-h and in contact with the under face of and connecting bar provided with a downthe plate-sections, substantially as shown and 5 weirdly-extending stud or post near each exdescribed.

tremity adapted to enter the recesses in the I JOHN CASELEY. plates, and a nose integral with the upper Vitnesses: surface at each end, having a concave under CHARLES H. I'IENSHAW,

surface capable of contacting with flange of FRANK G. BURK. 

